IBPS PO (Probationary Officers) has become an attractive career option for many individuals. The reason is simple. IBPS PO offers a promising job opportunity with many benefits like job security, good prospects, handsome pay package, etc.

The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) has been conducting common written examination (CWE) since 2011. That’s why this year we call this exam as IBPS PO CWE VII (7th) exam.

This year there is slight twist in the syllabus of IBPS PO Main examination. Now we will see various aspects of IBPS PO Exam 2017 which will cover things related to IBPS PO notification, exam dates, eligibility criteria, vacancy, online application, syllabus, etc.

IBPS PO 2017 Notification

Tentative dates of IBPS PO 2017 Exam will release in the month of July – August 2017. Every candidate has to register online on the IBPS official website for filling up online application form.

The exam has three phases of the selection process as Prelims or Preliminary, Mains & Interview. First two-phase which are Prelims and Mains are a purely online examination. Once a candidate clears Mains then only he becomes eligible for attending interview round.

IBPS PO 2017 Exam Dates

The total process starts from July of every year and commences somewhere in April of next year. IBPS CWE PO/MT-VII 2017 tentative dates are out as follows:

IBPS PO / MT 7 (VII) Exam Calendar

Exam Dates

Online Registration Start Date

16th Aug 2017 to 5th Sept 2017

Last Date of Online Registration

5th Sept 2017

Online application fees payment Dates

16th Aug 2017 to 5th Sept 2017

Conduct of Pre-Exam Training

23r Sept 2017 to 29 Sept 2017

Preliminary Exam Admit Card Download Date

September 2017

Preliminary Exam Dates

07/10/2017, 08/10/2017, 14/10/2017 & 15/10/2017

Result of IBPS PO Preliminary Online exam

October 2017

Download of Admit Card for Online Mains exam

November 2017

Online Mains Exam Date

26th November 2017

Exam Result Declaration Date

December 2017

Interview Call Letter download date

January 2018

PO Interview Date

January / February 2018

Provisional Allotment date - Provisional Posting

April 2018

IBPS PO 2017 Vacancy

Every year almost 20 lakhs candidates sit alone in IBPS PO examination. The total vacancy is around 9000. As per IBPS official website, indicative vacancy for PO / MT in the participating banks is as follows:

IBPS PO 2017 Exam Centre

IBPS keep a lot of examination centre for IBPS PO exam across the country. Every candidate will have an option of selection choice exam centre while filling up online application form.

State Code

State /UT / NCR

Centre

11

Andaman & Nicobar

Port Blair

12

Andhra Pradesh

Chirala

Chittoor

Guntur

Hyderabad

Kakinada

Kurnool

Nellore

Ongole

Puttur

Rajahmundry

Srikakulam

Tirupati

Vijaywada

Vishakhapatnam

Vizianagaram

13

Arunachal Pradesh

Itanagar

Naharlagun

14

Assam

Dibrugarh

Guwahati

Jorhat

Kokrajhar

Silchar

Tezpur

15

Bihar

Arrah

Aurangabad

Bhagalpur

Bihar Sharif

Darbhanga

Gaya

Hajipur

Muzzafarpur

Patna

Purnea

Samastipur

Siwan

16

Chandigarh

Chandigarh

17

Chhattisgarh

Bhilai

Bilaspur

Raipur

18

Dadra & Nagar Haveli

Surat

Jamnagar

19

Daman & Diu

20

Delhi

Bahadurgarh

Delhi

Faridabad

Ghaziabad

Greater Noida

Gurgaon

21

Goa

Panaji

Verna

22

Gujarat

Ahmedabad

Anand

Gandhinagar

Himatnagar

Jamnagar

Mehsana

Rajkot

Surat

Vadodara

23

Haryana

Ambala

Hissar

Karnal

Kurukshetra

Palwal

Panipat

Sonipat

Yamuna Nagar

24

Himachal Pradesh

Baddi

Bilaspur

Dharamshala

Hamirpur

Kangra

Kullu

Mandi

Shimla

Sirmaur

Solan

Una

25

Jammu & Kashmir

Jammu

Kathua

Samba

Srinagar

26

Jharkhand

Bokaro

Dhanbad

Hazaribagh

Jamshedpur

Ranchi

27

Karnataka

Belgaum

Bengaluru

Bidar

Gulbarga

Hubli

Mangalore

Mysore

Shimoga

Udipi

28

Kerala

Alappuzha

Kannur

Kochi

Kollam

Kottayam

Kozhikode

Malappuram

Palakkad

Thiruvananthpuram

Thrichur

29

Lakshwadweep

Kavarrati

30

Madhya Pradesh

Bhopal

Gwalior

Indore

Jabalpur

Sagar

Satna

Ujjain

31

Maharashtra

Amaravati

Aurangabad

Chandrapur

Dhule

Jalgaon

Kolhapur

Latur

Mumbai/Thane/Navi Mumbai

Nagpur

Nanded

Nasik

Pune

Ratnagiri

Sangli

Satara

32

Manipur

Imphal

33

Meghalaya

Ri-Bhoi

Shillong

34

Mizoram

Aizawl

35

Nagaland

Kohima

36

Odisha

Angul

Balasore

Bargarh

Baripada

Berhampur(Ganjam)

Bhubaneshwar

Cuttack

Dhenkanal

Jharsuguda

Rourkela

Sambalpur

37

Puducherry

Puducherry

38

Punjab

Amritsar

Bhatinda

Fategarh Sahib

Jalandhar

Ludhiana

Mohali

Pathankot

Patiala

Phagwara

Sangrur

39

Rajasthan

Ajmer

Alwar

Bhilwara

Bikaner

Jaipur

Jodhpur

Kota

Sikar

Udaipur

40

Sikkim

Gangtok

41

Tamilnadu

Chennai

Coimbatore

Dindigul

Krishnagiri

Madurai

Nagercoil

Namakkal

Perambalur

Salem

Thanjavur

Thiruchirapalli

Thoothukodi

Tirunelvelli

Vellore

42

Telangana

Hyderabad

Karimnagar

Khammam

Warangal

43

Tripura

Agartala

44

Uttar Pradesh

Agra

Aligarh

Allahabad

Bareilly

Bulandhshaher

Gorakhpur

Jhansi

Kanpur

Lucknow

Mathura

Meerut

Moradabad

Muzaffarnagar

Unnao

Varanasi

45

Uttarakhand

Dehradun

Haldwani

Haridwar

Roorkee

46

West Bengal

Asansol

Bardhaman

Berhampur

Durgapur

Greater Kolkata

Hooghly

Howrah

Kalyani

Kolkata

Siliguri

However, IBPS reserves the right to cancellation or change of any exam centre irrespective of your choice exam centre. You call letter with have the address of exam venue.

IBPS PO 2017 Online Application

All eligible candidate who wants to join as Probationary Officer/ Management Trainee or in a similar post in that cadre is required to register online for the Common Recruitment Process (CWE PO/MT-VII).

Candidates can only apply online starting from last week of July 2017 to Mid of August 2017. There is no other mode of application except online application.

All candidates have to follow below Pre-requisites for Applying Online

Scan your photograph and signature ensuring that both the photograph (dimension as 4.5cm × 3.5cm) and signature adhere to the required specifications as given in official Advertisement.

Check all the necessary detail and documents. Keep them ready before the payment of online application fees.

You got to have a valid personal email ID. This email ID is the only point of contact from IBPS for receiving call letters for the Examination etc. If you do not have any personal email ID, then create one and maintain it up to the end of the selection process.

Procedure of Applying Online

Candidates shall go to the IBPS official website and register their application by entering necessary details.

Candidates shall upload their photograph and signature as per the IBPS official guidelines.

Candidates are advised to carefully fill the details in the online application as no change in data will be entertained at a later stage.

Mode of Payment

You can make the online payment by using all Debit Cards, Credit Cards, Internet Banking, IMPS, Cash Cards, Mobile Wallets.

The successful completion of the transaction will generate an e-receipt.

You are required to take the printout of the e-receipt and the online application form.

The candidate should ensure the particulars filled in are accurate and retain it along with Registration Number and Password for future reference.

Important Note: You should not send application printout to the IBPS or any Banks. Also, do not wait for the last date of filling the online application form as sometimes IBPS official website experience heavy traffic and jam due to the high volume of applicants.

IBPS PO 2017 Application Fee

You have to pay online the Application Fees or the Intimation Charges in between last week of July 2017 and Mid-August 2017 (CWE PO/MT-VII Notification period). The total application fee is as follows:

Rs. 100/- for SC/ST/PWD candidates.

Rs. 600/- for all others

Bank Transaction charges for Online Payment of Application fees will have to be borne by the candidate.

IBPS PO 2017 Exam CWE VII Pattern

By now you know that IBPS PO exam has two stages of online objective tests. The first stage of online examination is Prelims and the Second stage is Mains.

The structure of Preliminary Examination is as follows:

You have to qualify in each of the three tests by securing cut-off marks decided by IBPS. You will only be eligible for Mains after you pass Prelims.

The structure of Mains Examination is as follows:

Name of Test

Number of Questions

Maximum Marks

Duration (Separately Timed)

Reasoning & Computer Aptitude

45

60

60 Mins

General Awareness (With Special Ref. to Banking)

40

40

35 Mins

Data Analysis & Interpretation

35

60

45 Mins

English Language

35

40

40 Mins

Total

155

200

3 Hours

English Language (Letter Writing & Essay)

2

25

30 Mins

This year i.e. 2017, there are some changes in the IBPS PO main exam pattern. There is an addition of English essay writing and also total number of question numbers have changed including total marks. You have to obtain a minimum score in each of the above test and also a minimum total score for getting shortlisted for interview.

Please note here that in the Mains exam, every section has a separate time duration. Whereas, in the case of the Preliminary exam, you have composite time for all parts.

Interview

All candidates who have cleared IBPS CWE PO / MT VII Main Exam will go for face to face interview. The Participating Organisations conduct this interview and also it is coordinated by the Nodal Bank in each State with the help of IBPS.

You will receive all interview details via call letter. All shortlisted candidates will be required to download the interview call letter from IBPS official website.

The ratio of marking of IBPS PO CWE Main exam and interview will be 80:20 respectively.

Note: Main examination marks is valid for shortlisting for the interview and final merit listing. Prelims exam scores will only be considered to qualify for the Main exam.

Negative Marking for wrong answers (Preliminary and Main examination)

All candidates must note that there will be negative marking or penalty for wrong answers in the Objective Tests. Every wrong answer will deduct 0.25 marks from the total marks.

If a question is left blank without any answer, then there will be no negative marking for that question. Candidate should build a strategy around this as this could be deciding factor of cracking IBPS PO exam CWE VII.

IBPS PO Exam Syllabus 2017

Reasoning Ability

Logical Reasoning

Alphanumeric Series

Tabulation

Coding-Decoding

Syllogism

Ranking

Data Sufficiency

Alphabet Test

Non-Verbal Reasoning

Direction

Sitting Arrangements

Coded Inequalities

Input-Output

Odd man out

Quantitative Aptitude

Number Systems

Mensuration _ Cylinder, Cone, Sphere

Profit & Loss

Time & Distance

Ratio & Proportion

Quadratic Equations

Percentage & Averages

Permutation Combination & Probability

Alligations & Mixtures

Data Interpretation

Surds & Indices

Sequence & Series

Simple Interest & Compound Interest

Basic Knowledge of Computers

History of computers

Internet

Number System

Hacker

Database (Basic Knowledge)

Virus

Hardware

Security Tools

Software

MS Windows

Communication

MS Office

Networking

Logic Gates

English Language

Reading Comprehension

Spot Errors

Paragraph Completion

Sentence Correction

Para Jumbles

Vocabulary

Cloze Test

Multiple Meaning Words

General Awareness

IBPS Syllabus - Genereal Awareness

Topics

Number of Questions (Approximately)

Banking and Finance Awareness

Indian Economy and Banking, Budget, Survey, Policies

20

GK & Current Affairs

News, Famous Personalities, History, Geography, Polity

20

IBPS PO 2017 Eligibility Criteria

Each candidate applying for IBPS CWE PO/MT-VI 2017 should fulfil the IBPS minimum eligibility criteria specified in their advertisement. Nationality, education and age are the primary eligibility requirements.

Nationality

A candidate should be either

A Citizen of India or

A subject of Nepal or

A subject of Bhutan or

A refugee who came over to India before 1st January 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India or

A person of Indian origin who has migrated from with the intention of permanently settling in India, provided that the Government of India has issued a certificate of eligibility. Countries which comes in the list are Tibet, Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam.

Education Qualification

All candidates registering for IBPS PO exam 2017 must have a graduation degree in any discipline from a recognised university (by Govt. of India) or equivalent qualification from Central Government.

There is no minimum percentage required for the primary qualification. Any pass degree would stand well.

The candidate must possess valid Mark-sheet or Degree Certificate before registering online i.e. before the last date of online registration.

Age Criteria

Age criteria for General Category are minimum 20 years, and the maximum is 30 years.

A candidate must have been born not earlier than 02/07/1987 and not later than 01/07/1997 (both dates inclusive)

Although there is relaxation age for various categories as below:

Category

Age Relaxation

Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe

5 years

Other Backward Classes (Non-Creamy Layer)

3 years

Persons With Disabilities

10 years

Ex-Servicemen / Disabled Ex-Servicemen

Actual period of service rendered in the defence forces + 3 years (8 years for Disabled Ex-Servicemen belonging to SC/ST) subject to a maximum age limit of 50 years

Widows, divorced women and women legally separated from their husbands who have not remarried

9 years

Persons ordinarily domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period 01.01.1980 to 31.12.1989

5 years

Persons affected by 1984 riots

5 years

Regular employees of the Union Carbide Factory, Bhopal retrenched from service (Applicable to Madhya Pradesh state only)

5 years

IBPS PO Salary

IBPS PO salary varies with location, but the overall salary is around Rs. 30,000/- (Approximately). The overall salary has a few components like Basic pay, HRA, DA and CCA.

Basic Pay

Rs. 14500/-

Dearness Allowance

Rs. 14485.5/-

CCA

Rs. 540.00/-

Total Remuneration (Excluding HRA)

Rs. 29525.5/-

HRA

Rs. 1232.50/-

Total Salary (Including HRA)

Rs. 30758/-

IBPS PO Admit Card 2017

Candidates should download the IBPS PO 2017 admit card or call letter from the IBPS official website. You will not receive any hard copy of the IBPS PO Admit Card via post.

The admit card will be made available 10 to 15 days before the IBPS PO 2017 Exam. The admit card or call letter for IBPS PO 2017 will be issued in 3 stages:

Online Preliminary Examination

Online Mains Examination

Interview

IBPS PO Results 2017

IBPS will release the results online after every stage of the exam. All candidates will get the selection notification on their registered personal email id. Also, the candidate can check the result from the IBPS official website as and when the results are available.

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